The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic ...

A rare blanket of flowers has transformed Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, and drawn tourists and scientists ...

After 15 years of hiding in the shadows, nature has delivered an astonishing surprise straight out of a botanical fairytale.

A gardener has described his delight that his rare plant has flowered after a quarter of a century. Tony Kennington, 78, who lives in Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said he was given the agave ...

Amazon Horticulture says one of its rarest plants, a corpse flower named “Morticia,” is in bloom this week inside the Seattle ...

(WJW) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fears if action isn’t taken, the rare ghost orchid could soon be extinct. The FWS is now proposing to list the swamp-dwelling plant as an endangered species ...

The Amazon Spheres are displaying a corpse flower that is in bloom, which smells exactly like the name-- a decaying corpse.

Hold your nose and hurry: One of the world’s rarest and smelliest plants, a corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum ), has opened at the San Diego Botanic Garden, in Encinitas. Once in full bloom, the ...

Middlemist's Red, considered the world's rarest flower, exists in only two known locations: London and New Zealand. Brought from China in 1804 by John ...

As gardeners, we know that plants hold immeasurable value, from intrinsic beauty to life-saving medicine. Yet an alarming number of plants have gone extinct, and one in five existing plants is in ...

Scientists discovered 16,000 plants of the endangered Camatta Canyon Amole at a preserve in San Luis Obispo County, hinting at an exciting possibility to research and rehabilitate this “deeper cut” ...